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British music arranger, conductor, composer
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2022-06-04 20:40:01
Virtuosa Alexa Raine-Wright, flute; Sallynee Amawat, violin; Andrea Stewart, violoncello; Rona Nadler, harpsichord Leaf Music, 2022 In 2017, Infusion Baroque released the Virtuosa Series, a collection of videos highlighting the musical careers of fourteen women from the 18th and 19th centuries. Still infused with the desire to emphasize female composers’ accomplishments in the face of [...]
2022-01-22 09:29:54
[…] particularly her late, mystical work. He likes language that is timeless, suggestive, ambiguous and sometimes surreal. Another poet he mentions is the late Nicholas Heiney who died in his early 20s; Heiney was the son of radio presenter, journalist and author Libby Purves, who published a volume of her son's writing, The Silence at the Song's End, which inspired Joseph's 2008 song cycle of the same name. He also mentions the mystical poetry of Kathleen Raine (1908-2003), which leaves space for music, whereas though Joseph love's T. S. Eliot's poetry, he finds it difficult to set. It is all about the qualities of the language. Steven Stucky & Joseph Phibbs in 2013 For a composer like Joseph, accepting commissions becomes a practical issue as he doesn't teach and so earns a living from his writing, and has very rarely turned down a commission. He can rarely choose […]
2021-09-08 11:22:00
Authentic Korngold to raise the Proms roof
[…] just sit down and write a piece that expresses his/her/their immediate, overt experience or state of mind. Some might have, sometimes: for example, a Robert Schumann who wrote so intensely that he could draft a whole piano work in just a few days - but that’s the exception. There are many, the Gáls and Lakses for instance, who deliberately keep their work and their lives separate. Or to quote (or misquote) a line of Nina Raine’s play Bach and Sons, Sebastian says rather tetchily: ‘Of course there are emotions in my music – just not my emotions.’ In between, there’s infinite middle ground. Try Beethoven. Sometimes what he didn’t write can tell us a little bit about how he did, when he did. He had notably scant output in 1817, something often attributed to his personal state of mind, body and preoccupations at the time: illness, depression, trying to adopt his nephew, and so […]
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